As you know everyone’s idiotic freak outs over COVID has had an over-spray to the RNC Convention. Only 6 people are present carrying all 162 delegate votes. They are:
Martha House, Jessica Patterson, Howard Hakes, Shawn Steel, Harmeet Dhillon, Mario Rodriguez.
We’ve written about all of them. When I met House she was a long time moderate activist from San Bernardino (she lives in LA County Now), Jessica is CAGOP Chair and automatic, Hakes is a big donor and insider manipulator (think Cal Plan, New Majority, etc), Shawn Steel and Harmeet Dhillon are elected National Committee-members and Mario Rodriguez has been a Grow Elect and Trailblazers board member for years.
Those six people will cast all the votes for the largest RNC Delegation in 2020.
Matt Klemin Update: The arrogant, abrasive $152,000 a year (that we know of, his real salary is alleged to be double this) Senate Caucus strategist was fired. He sent out a petulant resignation email, but insider info I received for about 18 hours before his email went out indicated he was terminated. I am not 100% sure the reason, but $152,000 is an absurd amount to pay someone whose strategic brilliance lost SD 12, 14 and 34 in 2018. The Senate Caucus is also broke, having emptied themselves on SD23. (Not to mention $200K on Grow Elect wonder child Jesus Andrade in SD05 who got hammered by an old white guy in the Primary. That nominee was immediately abandoned)
I’ve gotten several calls about Klemin, none have had anything nice to say about the man. That is actually pretty sad. Given my one conversation with him, I suggest he use some of his bloated severance and ghastly government benefits to seek therapy for his attitude.
Klemin’s wife, Rebecca Luby is receiving rave reviews as is Molly Parnell. Both appear to be having considerable success fundraising for the party. Regardless of how I feel about their establishment connections or participation in the insider games – they are both doing their job and doing it well. Unlike others sucking down 6 figure salaries for losing and wrecking the party – at least these two appear to be worth their paychecks.
Now contrast Matt Klemin’s blunders with the Assembly side. Nithin Matthew, George Andrews and the crew over there husbanded their resources and they actually have a lot of money to spend defending targeted incumbents. For example, Cap and Trade vote Jordan Cunningham D-San Luis Obsipo is going to need an intervention as his hatred of the President is separating him from his base. (AD35) Stephen Choi, more than Janet Nguyen and Phillip Chen will need a lot of help. I’ve been told that Nguyen is being fully supported despite the anger over her successful primary challenge to the corrupt Tyler Diep (AD72)
Do they help Diane Dixon AD74? Or is she still on the abandoned list?
I’ve been told by several that Kelly Seyarto (AD67) and Laurie Davies (AD73) have been getting supported with paying off primary campaign debt and raising enough money to not be vulnerable to a surprise challenger in 2022. It is just that the CAGOP (not Assembly Leadership) are ignoring both of them.
Nithin, George and the others in the Assembly crew deserve credit for the correct decisions they have made. The choice to not spend their money on primaries is one I totally agree with. The AD38 criticism is directed at CAGOP types meddling – not the Assembly Leadership who have rightly allowed that race to work itself out as the result is known (A Republican Assemblymember).
This gets me to the aforementioned idiots running the CAGOP. The specific people I am referring to as idiots are those involved in lynching Mike Cargile. I have theories that range from Scott Winn, a jilted consultant Cargile did not hire (remember, we burned Winn for a direct role in lunching Ted Howze CA10), Jeff Randle wanting to control convention delegates by trying to reduce Cargile’s Margin and paranoid staff that are hunting down Q-anon supporters.
Well these people all look like fools – one, they told us we needed Republicans in every race to make the democrats spend money so they would have less to chase targeted races. So Mike Cargile is doing just that – the Communist Sympathizer Norma Torres (who hails from the birthplace of MS-13) attacked Cargile in the mail:
Think about how much more money Torres would have to spend if the CAGOP had not helped her out by lynching Mike Cargile! But hey! Jeff Randle got to cut a few delegates off of the 2021 pool so that he can control an outcome re-electing Jessica Patterson in advance of abusing the CAGOP to promote Kevin Faulconer for Governor in 2022!
Endgame folks. Track the movements of the CAGOP insiders – it is all about Kevin Faulconer for Governor. Trump-Hater Meg 2.0 without the money or the resume.

Aaron Park FYI, Martha House lives in Hacienda Hights, which is in the
San Gabriel Valley, L.A. County.
I was a Trump Delegate again, so like many of my friends we were disappointed not being
able to be in Charlotte or Jacksonville, canceled 2 airline tickets and getting only e-credits for future travel, but at least we WILL be getting back from the CRP our $1200 we paid in full for the RNC Convention early in January, I mean is the honorable think to do, right.?
Celeste – if you get your $1200 back from Andy Garakhani, let me know. I doubt you will see a dime, those mercedes payments are pretty large.
I bet Andy would make more money if we focused on gaining our market share and getting more Republicans elected aside from those who fit his litmus test.